As Philip thus muttered, Lygdus drew nigh and addressed him.
Love draws nigh to its object; hatred draws away from its object, which it never approaches except in order to destroy it.
Protestantism, with all deference to our author, who pronounces it imperishable, we venture to say, has well-nigh run its course.
I know not, sir, whether they know what to do; but I am sure they have been at church well-nigh an hour.
So far you cannot: for this glass is fram'd For eyes of thirty; you are nigh threescore.
He was determined them young birds was to be allowed to leave that nest without bein' pestered, an' they stayed so long they purty nigh run him into long division 'fo' they did fly.
I answered, 'I am a stranger and so thirsty that I am well nigh dead of thirst.
The noise aroused the young lady, who awoke terrified and trembling; and, when she saw the ape in this case, she shrieked such a shriek that her soul well nigh fled her body.
The robbers made off; but the Wali entered the mosque and, finding the man from Baghdad asleep there, laid hold of him and beat him with palm-rods so grievous a beating that he was well-nigh dead.
After this she set on wine and drank and gave the ape to drink; and he stroked her nigh half a score times without drawing till she swooned away, when he spread over her a silken coverlet and returned to his place.
And ye had well nigh met him; for here cometh his carrack.
Colder and colder; we are drawing nigh to the Cape.
The time was drawing nigh when Fuller had to die; He bid the audience adieu.
He had wailed in pain till o'er his brow Death's shadows fast were gathering now; He thought of his home and his loved ones nigh As the cowboys gathered to see him die.
I went with the King on that journey to Bayonne, when we were two years and more making the tour of well-nigh all this kingdom.
We have little doubt that his pupils could tell us that Liebig did not even employ that instrument without which any exact study of fermentation is not merely difficult but well-nigh impossible.
I almost think they are going to keep me waiting," said Mr. Richard, well-nigh in the very words of Louis XIV.
On the night of the 7th of November we drew nigh to Dublin; but instead of entering the capital, we halted at a small village outside of it called Chapelizod.
Our stranger in London had well-nigh the Park to himself.
I wandered along; and, after skirting much of the western precipice, drew nigh the bourne of my pilgrimage.
Then he sat down and well-nigh choked with laughter.
Sometimes she would appear so nigh to them that they could mark the flakes rotting from her beams and the weeds trailing round her bows, and the same minute she would appear as though half a mile away.
Bring me as much dry wood as you can bear, and ask no question, or I shall heave you down the face of this cliff, which it has well-nigh killed me to climb.
The dwarf put up his red hand and showed his chief a dead butterfly, its bright plumage well-nigh worn away, its wings crushed and wet.
There lies a mud-bank stretching under the water well-nigh to mid-stream.
These pictures must be taken down: The portraitures of our most antient family For nigh three hundred years!
I'm told the public's well-nigh crammed With such like stuff.
With sighs her heart nigh burst, salt tears fast fell, As mournfully she bended o'er that sacred well.
When first, Under pretence of visiting my father, (Being then a stripling nigh upon my age) You came a wooing to his daughter, John.
That right was well-nigh gained when we accepted the place of substitute for Spain.
Ye wis, fair lady, said Alisander, my mother told me that my father was brother unto a king, and I am nigh cousin to Sir Tristram.
With that the black knight, when she came nigh him, spake and said, Damsel, have ye brought this knight of king Arthur to be your champion?
When Sir Launcelot heard them say so, he fared as it had been an hungry lion, for he fared so that no knight durst nigh him.
Then looked Sir Launcelot before him, and saw the hair which he had bornenigh a year, for that he forethought him right much that he had broken his promise unto the hermit, which he had avowed to do.
And when Sir Percivale camenigh the brim, and saw the water so boisterous, he doubted to overpass it.
And ever king Arthur was nigh about Sir Launcelot to have slain him, and Sir Launcelot suffered him, and would not strike again.
And my name is, said the king, Pelles, king of the foreign country, and cousin nighunto Joseph of Arimathie.
And thus he is here the most part nigh her, and lodged by a priory, and every week she sendeth knights to fight with him.
And when he came nigh Sir Gareth he would have spoken but he might not, and therewith he sank down in a swoon for gladness.
Then there came one unto Sir Gawaine, and told him how the queen was led away with Sir Launcelot, and nigh a twentyfour knights slain.
Fair fellow, said Sir Ector, knowest thou in this country any adventures that be here nigh hand?
Mine own lord, said La Beale Isoud, be ye not displeased with me, for I may none otherwise do, for I saw this day how ye were betrayed, and nigh brought to your death.
And then they put afore them their spears, and Sir Launcelot came so fiercely upon him that he smote him and his horse down to the earth, that he had nighbroken his neck.
She found it difficult sometimes to remember even his personal appearance; she had well-nigh forgotten his voice; many idle repetitions had dulled the memory of that odd little thrill she had felt when her hand had lain in his.
She had not refused to accept, easily and as a loan, a sum of money from Buck; but thrice she had well-nigh quarrelled with Buck because she would accept it only as a loan.
Here Wagner discovered the germ of his beautiful story of "Lohengrin," following the lines of an old and well-nigh forgotten legend.
Elsa had well-nigh fainted from the excitement, and now laid her head sobbing upon the knight's shoulder.
Again and again the weapons were discharged, but the boys no longer bent their heads, for they were out of range, and the race was well-nigh won.
Night had now come, and in the darkness it was well-nigh impossible the American troops could continue the work so bravely pursued after the disgraceful rout, for which they were not really responsible.
I know you are tired, though, for I am, and I have been over this road in the same fashion nigh on to a hundred times.
And dire need too, for both Allan and Rory were well-nigh exhausted, and the foremost bear was barely forty yards behind them.
Most of these artists are young men, whose abilities have been vastly assisted by their studies in life schools, which it would have been well-nigh impossible for them to find in the earlier periods of our art.
Kelley has a sketchy style that is very effective, and of which the correct rendering on wood would have been well-nigh impossible with the old processes; but there is danger of carrying it to the verge of sensationalism.
In truth He remindeth you of that which will draw you nighunto God, the Lord of the worlds.
May His glory rest upon thee and upon such as have drawn nigh unto Him and apprehended the meaning of that which the exalted Pen of God, the Almighty, the All-Loving, hath recorded in this Tablet.
Verily His Call will draw thee nigh unto the realm of glory and will cause thee to extol His praise in such wise that every created thing will be enraptured, and to magnify His glory in such manner as to influence the entire creation.
We pray God to graciously aid thee to become a standard for the promotion of His Cause and to enable thee to draw nigh unto Him at all times and under all conditions.
Separation from Thee, O Thou Source of everlasting life, hath well nigh consumed me, and my remoteness from Thy presence hath burned away my soul.
THIS is a Tablet sent down by the Lord of mercy that the people of the world may be enabled to draw nigh unto this Ocean which hath surged through the potency of His august Name.
Thus have We sent down for thee that which will draw men nigh unto the Lord of creation.
True, my hope that they lived was now pretty nigh at ebb, for I argued to myself that if life was in them, they would already have managed to follow us.
It's gettin' nigh sundown; anyway, I guess we've done our forty to fifty mile already.
I looked at him in something of an emotion verynigh horror.
My head was beating and thumping like a shipyard with all its riveters, and the pain between my eyes was well-nigh unbearable.
The Mexicans now perceived that all was well nigh over, and tried to persuade Guatimozin to quit the place, fly to the distant provinces, and there rally his troops.
Well nigh all the Mexican prisoners had likewise perished; among them the prince Cacamatzin, a brother, a son, and two daughters of Montezuma.
Cortes perceived his men falling fast, some dead, and others dying; all seemed well nigh lost.
The position of Cortes was now well nigh desperate.
Their libraries are frequently the chance aggregation of the gifts of charity; too many of them discarded, as well-nigh worthless, from the shelves of donors.
For book selection, a well nighperfect technique has been established, but is technique enough?
